Ekiti Government Distributes free JAMB PINs to 2500 Students.

Ekiti Government Distributes free JAMB PINs to 2500 Students.

....As First Lady charges parents, beneficiaries on priorities.

Ekiti State Government has commenced the distribution of free E-registration PINs for 2023 Joint Admission Matriculation examination to two thousand five hundred students across the 16 local government areas of the state.

At the flagg off ceremony on Tuesday in Ado Ekiti, wife of Ekiti State Governor, Dr Olayemi Oyebanji said sixteen million, six hundred and twenty seven thousand Naira was committed to the project, covering e-training, registration and thumb printing at no cost to the beneficiaries.

The Governor's wife therefore challenged the benefitting students to work extra hard so as to gain admission to schools of high reputation, saying that the gesture was part of the commitment of government to relieve parents who were struggling to register their children for the examination.

She assured that the gesture would be sustained to encourage youth to put-in their best, urging parents to reduce domestic shores of the students to allow them to concentrate on the preparation for the examination.

"Start to read and attend coaching classes and give all it takes to pass the exam. You also need to emulate those that have become the award winners of this examination," she added.

The Governor's wife lauded teachers and other stakeholders in their quest at improving the quality of education in the state, urging them to continue until the glory in education is totally restored.

Earlier in her remarks, the Special Adviser to Governor on Education, Science and Technology, Dr Adebimpe Aderiye, advised the benefiting students to be adequately guided while filling their forms by concentrating on course of study to choose and also consider their areas of strength. 

Also the permanent Secretary Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Dr folakemi Olomojobi who said that the Government's step would ensure that students have unhindered access to tertiary education,  promised that it would be monitored,  but charged parents and students to cooperate with Government. 

In her Goodwill message, Head of service Mr Bamidele Agbede re-presented by a permanent Secretary, Mrs Tola faseluka appealed to the students to create time table to study, get rid of distractions, study past questions so as to pass well, ones and for all. 

One of the beneficiaries, Miss Sharon Ajulo appreciated the State Government for sustenance of the programme and gave assurance that the benefiting students would work hard to earn good results.